Preamble

The House met at Eleven o'clock

PRAYERS

[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

MEMBERS SWORN

Mr. Speaker: Will Members desirous of taking, and subscribing the Oath please come to the Table? Members who are sitting on the second Opposition bench above the Gangway will come first.

The following Members look and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Dingle Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Q.C., Ipswich.
Reginald Ernest Prentice, esquire, East Ham, North.
John Thomson Stonehouse, esquire, Wednesbury.
Right honourable Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, O.B.E., Coventry, East.
Christopher Paget Mayhew, esquire, Woolwich, East.
Right honourable Edward Richard George Heath, M.B.E., Bexley.
Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, baronet, Exeter.
Sir Hamilton William Kerr, baronet, Cambridge.
Ellis Smith, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South.
Colonel Sir Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, M.C., Lewes.
Hugh James Delargy, esquire, Thurrock.
Daniel Edmund Awdry, esquire, T.D., Chippenham.
Commander Harry Pursey, Kingstonupon-Hull, East.
William Stratton Mills, esquire, Belfast, North.
Herbert John Parker, esquire, Dagenham.
Henry Hynd, esquire, Accrington.
Philip Antony Fyson Buck, esquire, Colchester.
William John Biffen, esquire, Oswestry.
Austen Harry Albu, esquire, Edmonton.
Dennis Murray Walters, esquire, Westbury.

David Hedley Ennals, esquire, Dover.
John Hall, esquire, O.B.E., T.D., Wycombe.
Peter David Shore esquire, Stepney.
William Gibson Clark, esquire, Nottingham, South.
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.
Frank Fenwick Pearson, esquire, M.B.E., Clitheroe.
Frederick Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.
Geoffrey William Rhodes, esquire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East.
Right honourable Aubrey Jones, Birmingham, Hall Green.
John Astor, esquire, Newbury.
William Lloyd Roots, esquire, T.D., Q.C., Kensington, South.
Sir Eric Errington, baronet, Aldershot.
Frank Henry Taylor, esquire, Manchester, Moss Side.
Harold Frederick Martin Woodnutt, esquire, Isle of Wight.
Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.
Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell, esquire, M.C., Moray and Nairn.
Rafton John Pounder, esquire, Belfast, South.
Joyce Shore Butler, Wood Green.
Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, esquire, Wanstead and Woodford.
Sir Alexander Cadwallader Mainwaring Spearman, Scarborough and Whitby.
Carol Alfred Johnson, esquire, C.B.E., Lewisham, South.
George Jeger, esquire, Goole.
Joseph Hiley, esquire, Pudsey.
William Donald Chapman, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield.
Percy Holman, esquire, Bethnal Green.
Christopher John Salter Rowland, esquire, Meriden.
Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, esquire, Bosworth.
Desmond Louis Donnelly, esquire, Pembroke.
Arthur John Page, esquire, Harrow, West.
Thomas George Bradley, esquire, Leicester, North-East.
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon, esquire, East Aberdeenshire.
James Hutchinson Hoy, esquire, Edinburgh, Leith.
William Hamling, esquire, Woolwich, West.

11.21 a.m.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until 12.30 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Frank Tomney, esquire, Hammersmith, North.
Right honourable Frederick John Bellenger, Bassetlaw.
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, esquire, Grimsby.
Maurice Anthony Foley, esquire, West Bromwich.
Jennie Lee, Cannock.
Leslie Spriggs, esquire, St. Helens.
Sir Barnett Janner, Leicester, North-West.
Ioan Lyonel Evans, esquire, Birmingham, Yardley.
Alfred Morris, esquire, Manchester, Wythenshawe.
Norman Harold Lever, esquire, Manchester, Cheetham.
Sir Stephen James McAdden, C.B.E., Southend, East.
Colonel Sir Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, New Forest.
Nicholas Ridley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Nicholas Ridley, Cirencester and Tewkesbury.
Right honourable James Edward Ramsden, Harrogate.
Arthur Montague Frank Palmer, esquire, Bristol, Central.
Sir Cyril Wilson Black, Wimbledon.
 Sir Douglas Glover, T.D., Ormskirk.
Freda Kunzlen Corbet, Camberwell, Peckham.
Peter Harry Steve Griffiths, esquire, Smethwick.
Keith Monin Stainton, esquire, Sudbury and Woodbridge.
Right honourable Arthur Christopher John Soames, C.B.E., Bedford.
Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, esquire, commonly called Viscount Lambton, Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Colonel Sir James Harwood Harrison, baronet, T.D., Eye.
Humphrey Edward Atkins, esquire, Merton and Morden.
Richard Oliver Stanley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Richard Oliver Stanley, North Fylde.
Richard Phipps Hornby, esquire, Ton-bridge.
Right honourable Iain Norman Macleod, Enfield, West.

John Bruce-Gardyne, esquire, South Angus.
Sir William Robson-Brown, Esher.
Right honourable John Enoch Powell, M.B.E., Wolverhampton, South-West.

12.42 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until 2 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Sir John Benedict Eden, baronet, Bournemouth, West.
Alan David Walder, esquire, High Peak.
Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, baronet, C.B.E., Bute and North Ayrshire.
Sir Peter Geoffrey Roberts, baronet, Sheffield, Heeley.
John Edward Maginnis, esquire, Armagh.
Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, esquire, Central Norfolk.
John Anthony Kershaw, esquire, M.C., Stroud.
William Thomas Rodgers, esquire, Stockton-on-Tees.
Stanley Raymond McMaster, esquire, Belfast, East.
Thomas Steele, esquire, West Dunbartonshire.
Arthur William John Lewis, esquire, West Ham, North.
Ian Mikardo, esquire, Poplar.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until 2.30 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Arthur George Bottomley, O.B.E., Middlesbrough, East.
Iorwerth Rhys Thomas, esquire, Rhondda, West.
Gwilym Elfed Davies, esquire, Rhondda, East.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tuesday next at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—;[Mr. Sidney Irving.]

Adjourned accordingly at twenty-eight minutes to Three o'clock.